Weaver, Jane
The Watchbird Alluminate
Remaining faithful to her influences of Germanic marchen tales, Eastern European children's cinema and mechanical pop
music, Jane Weaver expands her critically acclaimed Fallen By Watchbird concept album in this ten chapter
sequel-of-sorts by employing a cast of new actors and narrators to reinterpret her surreal "cosmic aquatic folklore" 12
months after the first installment. Here Jane experiments with volks-music in its purest most innocent form using modern
tools to re-tell and recycle second hand stories. Inspired by post-war cinematic interpretations and hand-me-down
mistranslations of global folk tales Jane has collaborated with a close-knit group of musicians, noisemakers and
vocalists/narrators to create automatic-music and re-illuminate an eleven-page novella about telepathy, technology,
lost-love, wiccan, war and watchbirds. As part of ongoing voice and electronic experiments with the people behind
Pre-Cert Records The Watchbird Alluminate includes a wordless vocal introduction and interlude from both Demdike Stare
and the elusive Anworth Kirk while the spoken-word narrative of Finders Keepers' lost American pop folk singer Susan
Christie is reinterpreted by Ghostbox's Focus Group with results comparable to Ruth Whites 1968 electronic/vox inter-
pretations of Baudelaire's Flowers Of Evil. Jane's own Bird Records label roster contributes two new cover versions of
Weaver's self-penned tracks re-sung by Italian singer Emma Tricca and Rochdale's time-slipped falsetto soloist Magpahi
(in a track evokes cinematic scenes from Night Of The Hunter or The Innocents). Elsewhere vintage soft-pop royalty
appears in the form of a lead vocal from Wendy & Bonnie's, Wendy Flower, a close friend and confidant of Janes since
their first collaborations in New York and London in 2006 at the request of Jarvis Cocker for his guest curation at the
Meltdown festival. Other lead per- formances from Weaver add a new poetic twist to the story in both solo capacity and
along- side Samandtheplants' Sam McLoughlin whose Supernatural Lancashire library project (with Alison Cooper) from 2010
still resonates as one of the finest new releases of last year. With a unique approach to making non-linear mechanical
music this pop-up collective adds a further creative perspective to the oft mistreated "concept album" virtually
eliminating genre distinction in favour of communal noise - a unique product of genuinely independent music in 2011
which continues to sprout further branches.
Price
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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
26-09-2011
Label
Item-nr
480419
EAN
5060099502941
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
EUROPIUM ALLUMINATE WITH DEMDIKE STARE
2
A CIRCLE AND A STAR PART 1 WITH THE FOCUS GROUP AND SUSAN CHRISTIE
3
THE FALLEN BY WATCHBIRD VIDEO MIX
4
TURNING IN CIRCLES BY EMMA TRICCA
5
MAJIC MILK
6
WHISPERS OF WINTER WITH WENDY FLOWER
7
NOCTILMINA WITH ANWORTH KIRK
8
MY SOUL WAS LOST, MY SOUL WAS LOST AND NO-ONE SAVED ME BY MAGPAHI
9
SILVER CHORD WITH SAMANDTHEPLANTS
10
A CIRCLE AND A STAR PART 2 WITH THE FOCUS GROUP AND SUSAN CHRISTIE"